When a Crotch is Burnt
A series of rants from Loki against Alice Roth, a person he dithers to label as neither friend nor foe (the first of which taken from a highly angsty letter addressed to the said Alice Roth).
Dear Alice and all other eyes that may happen across this letter,
(As I have no doubt you will show this to Hades and "Suki" for a laugh)
You are a monstrous girl; and I truly, truly mean that. You are monstrous. But that, being a notion I find too hateful to even utter, is probably why I always manage to find myself at your side. Only monsters can play with monsters and not have the other break after all.
No doubt you were born a beast, not like I who had my beastliness thrust upon me. However, for the sake of immediate forthrightness, I may have had a choice in my development of accursedness (I merely got into the habit of acting poorly), but Alice, poor Alice Roth, you have been tainted with foulness from the get go and for that I offer all my previously unspoken sympathies. I can only think of apologies now for the fact that I could not have realised this was so sooner and moreover the volatile nature of my reaction. I hope you are grateful Alice Roth; I am not normally so lavish (neither am I normally so wordy and I hope you will not tease me for the hours I have spent on writing this message).
Although it was only later on that I became aware of your true ugliness, it did not stop me from feeling a deep seated dislike, soon to be mixed up with something much more tender and confusing. But back then you remained an inky black blot on freshly pressed paper, a fish out of water that could somehow climb trees better than I. Even now, I think back ruefully upon that jovial human tune you had once chirped cockily into my ear: anything you can do I can do better... I loathe that melody.
Though before even those early days there was a prior stage of acquaintanceship, one where I saw you from afar, back before my crotch was burnt.
So this is a side fic to Accidental Tourist.
Sorry its so short and an even bigger apology for not updating anything on the AT series for a long time. Life is just being a bit of a dementor right now, or a mosquito, or a vampire. Basically it's sucking away all of my energy so this updating process is gonna take some time yet.
